Read These, You Will: Star Wars Books for Every Kind of Kid

by Tom Burns

Photo credit: Pablo Blazquez Dominguez, Getty Images News/ Getty Images

Whether or not you’re fan of the movies, it’s hard not to recognize that Star Wars has played a HUGE role in modern mythology, representing a vast storytelling universe, which, for decades, has expanded itself through picture books, early readers, novels, comic books — almost every literary format available. (There are WAY more Star Wars books than movies.)

So, if you want to find your kid the perfect book to celebrate a Star Wars moment — May the FourthStar Wars Reads Day, the latest Star Wars movie — or parlay your kid’s fandom into more reading, there is a staggering variety of titles to choose from. Here are some suggestions for Star Wars books that speak to all different kinds of kids with all different kinds of interests.

  • For Those Too Young to Actually Watch the Movies...

  • The Star Wars Little Golden Book Library

    by Various Authors

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    Star Wars has become such a cultural juggernaut that it often gets on kids’ radar way before they’re actually old enough to see the films. So what are you supposed to do when your preschooler wants to know everything about the Jedis returning and the Sith revenging, but you know that the movies will give them nightmares about severed arms and trash-compactor monsters?

    Fortunately, the Star Wars Little Golden Book Library offers a six-book retelling of the entire movie series — told in the classic “Little Golden Book” format — acting as an ideal, bedtime-friendly introduction to the SW universe for even the littlest Padawans.

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  • For the Super-Fan Who Can’t Get Enough of “The Force Awakens”…

  • Aftermath

    by Chuck Wendig

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    If your child still hasn't stopped talking about the latest Star Wars movie (or the inherent design flaws in Kylo Ren’s lightsaber) — and if they’re a well-read tween or teen — you might want to direct them towards Chuck Wendig’s Aftermath, the officially sanctioned Star Wars novel that offers the definitive answer to “What happened after Return of the Jedi” and may give some good backstory for storylines featured in the new trilogy.

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What other Star Wars books would you recommend to young Jedis?